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People have been saying the same thing about TV since its inception, and that has a larger scale than the internet. So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy a

People have been saying the same thing about TV since its inception, and that has a larger scale than the internet. So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary.

Hoasi 5y ago
> So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary. The jury is still out on that, even for the optimistic amongst us. Current events/culture/elections/social commentary beg to disagree...
- smegger001 5y ago
  hey President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho of Idiocracy at least tried to hire the best minds available and took their advice. that is far and away better than we have had for a long time https://stephenaroth.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/five-reasons-why-it-is-time-to-return-president-camacho-to-the-white-house/ https://stephenaroth.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/five-reasons-w...
StanislavPetrov 5y ago
>So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary. Many of us hold the opposite opinion.
- zdragnar 5y ago
  Idiocracy was fine for entertainment, but if you are looking for a moral, it is pure elitist garbage. The basic premise that intelligence is purely driven by genes and that only dumb people will be left is practically hateful. Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist.
  - imwillofficial 5y ago
    Literally what the fuck are you talking about. The people breeding a lot in the movie were white. Your logic leaves much to be desired.
    - zdragnar 5y ago
      The only group in the US with a lower birthrate than white people are asians, as a group, though with a lot of variance by subgroup. Worldwide, white people are at the bottom, excepting China due to the one child policy. Even in China, minority groups in rural locations were allowed more than one.
      - imwillofficial 5y ago
        The part of the movie people called prophetic is not the ethnic groups of the highest breeding populations in the movie. It is the steady decline of IQ, moral decay, and increasing shallowness of experience and atomization of society. All of which is clearly more severe than when the movie was released. None of which makes any implicit commentary on race, no matter what mechanism actually brought about above stated societal decline.
        zdragnar 5y ago
        There are dozens of better choices to use for the sake of comparison if you want to say that you find the majority of people to be far beneath your brilliance and virtue. The decay of civilization in idiocracy was directly and exclusively due to two things: - intelligence is genetic - smart people bred themselves out of the gene pool I have literally heard people be chastised when they tell others they chose not to have kids, because have you seen idiocracy? The basic premise of the movie is so fundamentally flawed it is beyond offensive.
        imwillofficial 5y ago
        IQ is largely genetic. Studies have shown this for decades. If you find our current understanding of reality offensive, that sounds like wonderful motivation to do a study of your own. It must be sad to have so little sense of humor you get offended at the movie that features president commacho
  - StanislavPetrov 5y ago
    >Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist. Ironically, low intelligence people calling reality racist just serves to prove my point.
sva_ 5y ago
I think there's also an effect that when some trend is new, it seems overwhelming, but people tend to get used to it and cultivate a natural defense to whatever new bullshit came around, and push against it. So there's some kind of societal immune response to it. Like waves of the ocean that came suddenly but slowly recede. At least that's my hope with some of the stuff going on nowadays - but part of it will probably always be around.
mensetmanusman 5y ago
And sociological surveys seem to agree that the TV intro did make people stupider on average.

People have been saying the same thing about TV since its inception, and that has a larger scale than the internet. So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary.

Hoasi 5y ago

> So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary. The jury is still out on that, even for the optimistic amongst us. Current events/culture/elections/social commentary beg to disagree...

smegger001 5y ago
hey President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho of Idiocracy at least tried to hire the best minds available and took their advice. that is far and away better than we have had for a long time https://stephenaroth.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/five-reasons-why-it-is-time-to-return-president-camacho-to-the-white-house/ https://stephenaroth.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/five-reasons-w...

StanislavPetrov 5y ago

>So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary. Many of us hold the opposite opinion.

zdragnar 5y ago
Idiocracy was fine for entertainment, but if you are looking for a moral, it is pure elitist garbage. The basic premise that intelligence is purely driven by genes and that only dumb people will be left is practically hateful. Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  Literally what the fuck are you talking about. The people breeding a lot in the movie were white. Your logic leaves much to be desired.
  - zdragnar 5y ago
    The only group in the US with a lower birthrate than white people are asians, as a group, though with a lot of variance by subgroup. Worldwide, white people are at the bottom, excepting China due to the one child policy. Even in China, minority groups in rural locations were allowed more than one.
    - imwillofficial 5y ago
      The part of the movie people called prophetic is not the ethnic groups of the highest breeding populations in the movie. It is the steady decline of IQ, moral decay, and increasing shallowness of experience and atomization of society. All of which is clearly more severe than when the movie was released. None of which makes any implicit commentary on race, no matter what mechanism actually brought about above stated societal decline.
      - zdragnar 5y ago
        There are dozens of better choices to use for the sake of comparison if you want to say that you find the majority of people to be far beneath your brilliance and virtue. The decay of civilization in idiocracy was directly and exclusively due to two things: - intelligence is genetic - smart people bred themselves out of the gene pool I have literally heard people be chastised when they tell others they chose not to have kids, because have you seen idiocracy? The basic premise of the movie is so fundamentally flawed it is beyond offensive.
        imwillofficial 5y ago
        IQ is largely genetic. Studies have shown this for decades. If you find our current understanding of reality offensive, that sounds like wonderful motivation to do a study of your own. It must be sad to have so little sense of humor you get offended at the movie that features president commacho
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago
  >Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist. Ironically, low intelligence people calling reality racist just serves to prove my point.

sva_ 5y ago

I think there's also an effect that when some trend is new, it seems overwhelming, but people tend to get used to it and cultivate a natural defense to whatever new bullshit came around, and push against it. So there's some kind of societal immune response to it. Like waves of the ocean that came suddenly but slowly recede. At least that's my hope with some of the stuff going on nowadays - but part of it will probably always be around.

mensetmanusman 5y ago

And sociological surveys seem to agree that the TV intro did make people stupider on average.